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I started chemo yesterday
A little scary but I’m OK
We got there maybe half past eight
Stayed till two with lots of wait
They used the port they put in last week
I’d show it to you if you’d like a peek
First the lab – to pierce my port
They took some blood for some report
You should have seen the needle used
More like a nail did they choose
I took a breath, they stabbed it in
And with that chemo did begin
This nail had some tubes attached
Where other tubes would soon be patched
The doc came in, we talked a bit
He said it’s time, get on with it
But first a video to see
To show us just what was to be
We waited for the cocktail mix
The lab just started then to fix
The names of drugs? I haven’t time
Nor have I yet to find their rhyme
Suffice to say they’re Latin words
Words like you have never heard
Fifteen minutes then a flush
This process really has no rush
Two more bags were then connected
Two more hours were now projected
A flush of saline, vile of chem.
Did I have enough of them?
No, then they hooked a pump to me
To give me more but more slowly
A pump within a belly-bag
That for three days I must drag
And with that they then sent me home
Where I could wait there by the phone
So they could call and check on me
Until it’s time there on day three
To come back in and be inspected
While the pump is disconnected

	5/13/11

I wrote this the day after my chemo started.  That is how it all went down.

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